Kathryn Schulz's "Being Wrong" advocates doubt as a skill and praises error as the foundation of wisdom.
In Billy Aronson's "Light Years," four freshmen in their first day at college grow faster than light travels as they discover that sex, while it is far from self-discovery, is the foundation of wisdom.
Instilling discipline and respect in our children will work not only to build foundations of wisdom and the ability to make smart decisions; we need to know that, in a moment of crisis, they can and will immediately obey us.
It was the very foundation of philosophical wisdom.
Yet such statistics, long the foundation for conventional wisdom about the plight of women in politics, may not fully explain the resistance.
The attraction of common sense as the foundation for political wisdom has long been that it says we're all in this together — yet we can figure it out on our own, with only the basic resources we all naturally possess (another of Cain's many self-help books is "C.E.O. of Self: You are in Charge").
Although observers like the idea of pooling public and private resources for graduate training, some wonder about the wisdom of having a private foundation, in effect, select grantees for a federally funded program.
And when communicating, it pays to think "share with" rather than "talk to". 3. Help them build a solid leadership foundation and share wisdom for their key life decisions (e.g., college, career, family, and finances).
Younger dieters may be impatient with the delay, but more mature seekers of a new regime can see the wisdom in establishing a firm foundation to build a steady lifestyle change.
The foundation of her business was folk wisdom; Schueller's business rested on science".
In fact, the empirical foundation for much of the conventional wisdom on the underlying causes is surprisingly weak.
